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Gemini Live first look: Better than talking to Siri, but worse than I’d like

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Google launched Gemini Live during its Made By Google event in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. The feature allows you to have a semi-natural spoken conversation, not typed out, with an AI chatbot powered by Google’s latest large language model. TechCrunch was there to test it out firsthand. Gemini Live is Google’s answer to OpenAI’s […]

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Pixel Watch 3 adds a life-saving ‘loss of pulse’ detection feature

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With the introduction of the Pixel Watch 3 smartwatches, which now come in two sizes, Google is also introducing a new, potentially life-saving feature: loss of pulse detection. At the Made by Google 2024 event Tuesday, the company announced the watch’s added ability to sense this particular health emergency alongside other new tools and features,

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Google’s Made You Look uses Pixar characters to trick kids into smiling for the camera

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Most of the new camera features Google has brought to Pixel devices in recent years have involved AI-based post-processing. Made You Look, announced at Tuesday’s Made by Google 2024 event, is different. It’s reaches back into the history of photography to tap into a perennial favorite: tricking fussy children into smiling. Sure, there are already

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Made by Google 2024: All of Google’s reveals, from the Pixel 9 lineup to Gemini AI’s addition to everything

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The Made by Google 2024 event has kicked off, and after a busy rumor mill preceding the event, we have the first round of announcements and reveals from Google’s biggest hardware event of the year. Notably, this year’s edition is preceding Apple’s typical September iPhone reveal, with a focus on AI that anyone watching any

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Google’s $1,799 Pixel 9 Pro Fold arrives with 8-inch inner display and Gemini

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Pixel Phones dominated Tuesday’s Made by Google 2024 event. In addition to a full refresh for the Pixel 9 line, the company unveiled the successor to its first foldable, the Pixel Fold. Google rejiggered its numbering scheme this time out, jumping to Pixel 9 Pro Fold for what is its second take on the category.

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Google’s Pixel 9 line offers more size options, better cameras and Gemini by default

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The new Pixel 9 lineup took centerstage during Tuesday morning’s Made by Google 2024 event. Along with the inclusion of the Pixel 9 Fold Pro, the company added an additional size option. The trio of devices are: the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL. The Pro now sports the same size

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